Using Dolphin, I discovered an issue that when I go to full screen there’s no means of exiting from there, other than closing the window (Ctrl +W). Under View, nothing is shown for Full Screen exit, nor is there any option for this under ‘Configuring Dolphin’.
I find it hard to believe that there doesn’t appear to be a simple menu option to exit Full Screen, as this is available in other file managers, so what am I missing here?
Full screen isn’t handled by dolphin at the moment.
I don’t see much interest in supporting it directly in dolphin, you can just as easily use maximized window, or built-in Plasma menus to toggle on/off.
I’d rather spend time on other things, but I wouldn’t mind having someone reporting the feature or implementing it.
Full screen is a shell feature, Alt+F3 will open the decoration menu where you can toggle it off for most applications
After Alt+F3, you should find the Fullscreen action under More Actions.
To be honest, I stopped using Fullscreen for most applications - partly because my conky clock cannot stay above fullscreen, only maximised windows.
I set it so the window decorations disappear, so it works just as well - but the benefit here is that I set the shortcut Ctrl</kbd> for toggling maximise, and it works with everything just as well.
There isn’t a shortcut for Fullscreen in dolphin, you can check:
CtrlAlt, pulls up Dolphin’s shortcuts, try filtering… it’s just not there.
However, if I use the Global shortcut for toggling fullscreen (I set that myself to CtrlAlt\) then it will go to fullscreen and back.
I’m not sure how you entered fullscreen in Dolphin, but the shortcut is a toggle - so it will go back with the same method.
Well, there is an Action. One needs to right-click the title bar and select it from More Actions (or via Alt+F3).
This, however, isn’t very intuitive; especially not for newer users looking for a predictable toggle of some kind.
Okay. Not sure what’s meant by a ‘decorations’ menu, but Alt+F3 did the trick. Thnx.
This isn’t a Dolphin feature, this is simply the window manager… the option that you can find by pulling up the Window menu via AltF3 can be assigned a direct keyboard shortcut…
And if you assign it with a shortcut, it is entirely predictable.
We’re getting confused with the application and Plasma desktop here … you can also assign shortcuts for Vertical and Horizontal maximise toggles - which is an excellent feature if you want to go full-width or full-height rather than completely full-screen.
Well, you might be, I’m not. I’m perfectly aware that window management isn’t a part of individual applications such as Dolphin.
The action, as said, isn’t very intuitive; to newer users, not obviously available – hence questions such as this topic’s title.
That’s the intended extent of my comment.
Now, stop putting words in my mouth, or I’ll slap you with a wet 
in the other forum. 